Episodes

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Andrew Jekimochev, Community Lead of Blockchain Cuties Universe. Topics include the nuances between traditional and blockchain-based game development, the origin of BCU, how the community shapes the project, how the block…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Nicolas Choukroun, CEO of Metaisland. Topics include the various ways blockchain will be implemented in the game, his extensive background in the gaming space, what it was like to stumble upon cryptocurrency in the early …

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Ace, co-founder of UFO Gaming. Topics include the role UFO Gaming's community has with the direction of the project, airdrop events for NFTs and utility tokens, how UFO Gaming seeks to become the Steam platform for blockc…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Grace Gui, CMO of Jsquare. Topics include her background in the legal field, the international appeal cryptocurrency offers, how broader macro trends impact cryptocurrency markets, the differences between market cycles, c…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Jessica Levesque, Executive Director of C4. Topics include her background in education, where blockchain education gets it right and improvements that can be made, the community development aspects of blockchain ecosystem…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Dr. Wendy Charles, CSO of BurstIQ. Topics include her background in health policy and compliance, how blockchain technology improves health industry practices, the increasing rights individuals have over their health data…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Danielle Wall Elliott, COO of Nayms. Topics include her background and time at ShapeShift, the decentralization of ShapeShift as a corporation, how the cryptocurrency space has changed since 2014, the insurance industry b…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Odd Røland and Adrian Fjellberg, lead maintainers of Flamingo Finance. Topics include their background in Web 2, the shifting mindsets people have in their relationships with finance, cross-chain and other features on Fla…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Psykeeper, the founder of Saffron Finance. Discussion topics include trade-offs of being an anonymous founder, his outlook on DeFi's opportunities and constraints, preferences for building in bear markets, multi-asset tra…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Snake Plissken, the Chief Administrative Officer at Elk Finance. Discussion topics include how the DeFi platform achieves cross-chain interoperability, Elk Finance’s impermanent loss protection, the types of contracts it …

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with William Song, founder of Lyrebird. Topics discussed include Terra’s collapse and how it changed his perception of “defending the peg,” how Lyrebird will adapt and potentially move forward with a fractionally backed stable…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Andrew Redden, a founding member of PleasrDAO. Discussion topics include his background as a developer in the ETH ecosystem, his perspective on what DAOs are, what one should consider when championing a proposal in a DAO,…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Yev Muchnik, founder of Launch Legal. The pair discuss her journey into the legal field and blockchain, the differences between projects in bull and bear markets, the various types of DAOs Yev has advised, participating i…

Episode Notes In this episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Claude Müller and Guil Machado, Senior Software Engineers at AxLabs. The trio discussed their open-source code philosophy, the thought processes that went into the development of the GrantShares DAO, how individuals can p…

Episode Notes In the inaugural episode of the Smart Economy Podcast, Dylan speaks with Jon ShapeShift, co-founder and former COO of the ShapeShift exchange. The pair discuss ShapeShift's decision to shut down as a corporate entity and migrate entirely to a DAO model.